Sheila Baxter

Sheila Baxter is an anti-poverty activist who has written several books about poverty and mental illness in Canada.

Born in 1933, she became active in the anti-poverty movement in Quebec, Canada in 1970. Baxter also co-founded "Chez Doris", a drop-in centre for women living on the streets of Montreal, and has more recently been active in Vancouver, British Columbia as a counsellor and welfare advocate at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre. Baxter is a poet, educator and author of five books on poverty and homelessness, and is currently active with the Vancouver "City-Wide Housing Coalition".

Works

* "No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out" (New Star Press, 1988) (Photos: Lori Gabrielson)
* "Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C." (New Star Press, 1991)
* "A Child is Not a Toy: Voices of Children in Poverty" (New Star Press, 1993)
* "Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Other True Stories" (Press Gang Publishers, 1997)
* "Death in a Dumpster: A Passion Play for the Homeless" (Lazara Press, 2006)